To busy turning blue.
Posted on 09/21/2005 4:21:43 PM PDT by kingu
A Jet Blue aircraft just did a low altitude flyby of Long Beach airport after reporting some concern with their forward gear. The television helicopter caught an image of it - the gear is turned sideways and tilted.
Aircraft is heading out towards the ocean to drop fuel, will turn around, and attempt a 'soft field' landing, keeping the nose up as long as possible.
In the last few years I have done most of Florida with teams from 16 yo to 19 yo'ds and it has been all wonderful. Yes, a bit of a trip out of central pa to get the flights, but well worth the extra time and money savings.
jetBlue fan here.
A great ending.
And Delta flies its airplanes to China for periodic maintenance.
This is really distubing. We are not talking about overhauling Greyhound busses.
I for one would rather pay more for a ticket and have an airplane maintained by professionals than third world workers.
It's one of the few songs in life where I have to stop whatever I am doing and listen.
I wondered about that as it used to be standard practice to foam the runway before a possible crash landing. Something must have changed that procedure.
I agree, Great Landing by the pilot and crew.
The problem with foam is if there's no immediate danger of fire, it could make things worse. It could act as a lubricant, getting in the brakes and giving the pilot less control.
Another reason is that it could cause the heated wheel rims and brakes to explode. That's why the fire crews didn't spray anything on them.
You're never impudent, arasina. Well, almost never. ;-)
Holy crap! That was a scary article. I like that well-trained mechanics in America with years of experience work on our planes. It's too bad that ailine maintenance something else that is slated for the oursourcing chopping block. Oursourcing airplane maintenance to el Salvador to save a buck is bound to have disastorous consequences.
No, no, I have a hatred of the french because of an irrational plane.
I have a friend who flies A320s. He once had both engine throttles retard to idle for no reason while on final approach in the weather.
They don't call it Scarebus for nothing.
By the way...great tagline!
True true... ;)
To busy turning blue.
No wonder it blew. I told them not to use those Wilderness AT's they bought on sale.
Nice work, JetBlue.
It was, wasn't it? And thanks, Black Tooth, for your posts...they were most helpful.
"My son noticed that every time the planes nose wheel hit the center stripe, the flames were larger. Anyone got an idea as to why this would be?"
The painted white landing stripes may be painted with a glow at night paint, flouresent (sp?). That may be something that needs to be looked closer in regards to other landing fire incidents. Again, Good Catch!
Boazo, thanks for the laughs, as usual.
I didn't follow this thread, but watched this incident for an hour, praying all the time, until the pilot skillfully set the plane down. I was praying for bands of angels to surround him, the crew, and the passengers all the while.
It was wonderful to actually see prayers answered in real time. Thousands of prayers, millions of prayers from all the TV viewers worldwide, and those following along on the net.
Now to pray to reduce the power of Rita! And to set her on the least destructive path.
Oh, he was there....as usual bragging about his pilot skills.
His doltitude was cemented during the famous White Bronco chase (Al Cowlings toodling up the 405 with Orenthal cowering in the back seat), when the helichopter got a closeup and Paul Moyer declared in no uncertain terms, "We here at Channel 4 now confirm there's at least one person in that Bronco!"
Messier-Dowty is responsible for both the nose and main landing gear for this family. The nose landing gear is a single stage telescopic strut with integral rack and pinion steering. The main landing gear includes a two stage shock absorber to improve comfort at the time of landing. Principal materials used for the landing gear are ultra high tensile steel and high strength aluminum alloy.
My comment was removed for some weird reason. All I posted was a graphic showing how to turn off images for anyone using IE. What's wrong with that? We had someone on dial-up complaining about in-lined images. When I was on dial-up I always surfed with the images off and only loaded them when I needed to. Not everyone knows that you can do that, or how to do it. I thought I was being helpful in showing the procedure. I even crunched the image down to only 17 kb (!) before posting. How is what I did a problem?
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